I’m an idiot. I really am.
Okay, I’m smart enough, but when I ignore common sense that doesn’t help much.
My PC got a virus. A pretty nasty one. It took me a while a while, but I got it all cleaned up. 2 days later, I go out to some hacker site and BAM! I get hit with one mother of a virus.
I know better. But I can fix this shit. It’s part of what I do for a living. So I get arrogant. I decided that the advice that I give to other people, doesn’t apply to me. And it was bound to happen one of these days… I found a virus smarter than me. I couldn’t fix it. Format. Reload.
I know that a lot of geeks format/reload on a regular basis, but I don’t. I’d only done once on this PC (which is going on 5 years old.) I like to use my computer, not fiddle with it. So I reasoned if I had to blow it up… I might as well really change some things around. I installed Ubuntu 8.10.
I am very familiar with Ubuntu, I’ve played around with a fair bit, but I’d never taken the leap to put it on my main PC. There are a few things just won’t work on it. An app or two, and the drivers to my mixer that I user for the stupid radio show. No problem. I have a PC sitting around here that I can dedicate to those things. So I install XP on that one and set it up as my dedicated Podcast PC.
So after spending most of my free time for the last few weeks fixing or setting up my PCs, things are finally the way I want them.
Then the earpiece went out on my phone. Sprint was kind enough to replace the phone, but now it will take a bit off work to get it customized to how I had the old one.
I can’t win.
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